{"id":94596,"date":"2019-06-05T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=433222"},"modified":"2019-06-05T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:16:05","slug":"how-ai-is-helping-elephants-orcas-and-other-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/05\/how-ai-is-helping-elephants-orcas-and-other-species\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI is helping elephants, orcas and other species"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span><\/span>lephant<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> used to <\/span><\/span>wander<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>freely <\/span><\/span>across<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>Asia<\/span><\/span>. T<\/span><\/span>oday, <\/span><\/span>the<\/span><\/span>y roam through a <\/span><\/span>fraction<\/span><\/span> of the land<\/span><\/span><\/span>they <\/span><\/span>used to<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>A<\/span><\/span>s <\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span>human population grow<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Asian eleph<\/span><\/span>ant<\/span><\/span> habitat<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>continue<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> to shrink. <\/span><\/span>I<\/span><\/span>n Africa, the story isn\u2019t much brighter: In addition <\/span><\/span>to<\/span><\/span> dwindling habitat, the African elephant contend<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> with an illegal ivory trade that kills more than 20,000 elephants a year. Conservationists and researchers are doing all they can<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>B<\/span><\/span>ut<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>with <\/span><\/span>fewer than 500,000 elephants left worldwide,<\/span><\/span> time is running out.<\/span><\/span> <\/span>
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<\/span>That\u2019s where programs like <\/span><\/span>AI <\/span><\/span>for<\/span><\/span><\/a> Earth <\/span><\/span>come in. <\/span><\/span> <\/span>
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<\/span>AI for Earth grants are a<\/span><\/span>warded <\/span><\/span>to<\/span><\/span> projects that change the way people and organizations monitor<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> model and<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> ultimately<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> manage Earth\u2019s natural systems<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span> <\/span>
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<\/span>M<\/span><\/span>ore than <\/span><\/span>300<\/span><\/span> grants have been <\/span><\/span>given<\/span><\/span> to projects in 60 countries. <\/span><\/span>That\u2019s good news for elephants<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span>other <\/span><\/span>animals, too<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>S<\/span><\/span>ee <\/span><\/span>how<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>researchers, conservationists and scientists are using <\/span><\/span>Microsoft<\/span><\/span>\u2019s<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>cloud and AI tools to <\/span><\/span>understand diverse species and <\/span><\/span>safeguard vulnerable animals.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Larry Li from Unsplash.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Organizations <\/span>like<\/span> <\/span>Conservation Metrics<\/span> (with the Elephant Listening Project)<\/span><\/a> <\/span>use<\/span> AI<\/span>-enabled tools<\/span> <\/span>to <\/span>help <\/span>ensure a better future for the <\/span>elephants<\/span>. <\/span>To monitor and predict poaching threats, <\/span>Conservation Metrics <\/span>and the Elephant Listening Project<\/span> <\/span>use acoustic <\/span>surveys<\/span>,<\/span> <\/span>and<\/span> Save the Elephants <\/span>relies on <\/span>GPS tracking collars. <\/span>\u202f<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Elephants used to wander freely across Asia. Today, they roam through a fraction of the landthey used to. As the human population grows, Asian elephant habitat continues to shrink. In Africa, the story isn\u2019t much brighter: In addition to dwindling habitat, the African elephant contends with an illegal ivory trade that kills more than 20,000 elephants a year. Conservationists and researchers are doing all they can. But with fewer than 500,000 elephants left worldwide, time is running out.  That\u2019s where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[137,50],"class_list":["post-94596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-environment","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}